When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse

For every few thousand leftists you lose in swing states, you gain one... *checks notes*... former Romney, McCain, Jeb Bush, and Jon Huntsman staffer Tim Miller from the Bulwark.

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

It’s a great way to live. We’ve got a school shooter who calls in bomb threats and shooting up the school. And we keep laughing about TACO. One of these days it’s going to happen. Total Russian roulette. This is just a horrible way to live. Horrible.

By now it should be plain to all that there is a global conspiracy of oligarchs intent on destroying the rule of law. If they succeed, if we fail, our children and grandchildren will live as serfs.

Wars aren't won with aggression, they are won with logistics.

no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch

I get the impulse, trust me, but "Not all Americans" goes down about as well as "Not all men" did. It's a true statement that is also completely irrelevant, and demanding recognition for not being a piece of a shit while the rest of the world suffers helps nothing and no one.

Our planet is buried in convenient shit. Bad but easy food. Bad but easy art. Bad but easy narratives, followed by bad but easy conclusions. Prioritizing convenience disincentivizes the slow work of contemplation. Perhaps, even, of questioning. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/cheap-fast...

A lot of Europeans and Canadians talking about “why don’t you Americans do something” because this isn’t a movie

If I go to my health insurance company and tell them that John Thune has guaranteed a vote in the Senate, I’m certain the insurance company will reduce my premiums by 50%

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Remember the powers that be stopped Governor Walz from calling them people weird

GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.

The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.

No society will survive its conservatives. They offer nothing of value, they are parasites we can no longer afford. We must make progress toward saving the planet for human life and conservatives have us hurtling in the wrong direction. 'Wrong' in the sense that they will be the end of human life.

Stress.

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Just as it is possible to be a Christian without being hateful toward non-Christians, it is possible to be atheist without being hateful toward believers. It's true! Try it!

Too many Dems are like "How will Zohran even freeze rents anyway?" which is a fair question but far smaller in the grand scheme than the real significance of his win: convincing young people the Dem Party is theirs to remake if they just choose to do it And why the old guard is pissing itself

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

Hey leftists here's the REVOLUTION y'all want. You sat out the election, used every issue to either not vote for KH TW or stay home. Onward, here are the barricades the ramparts, make believe your a communard in 1870 Paris or Havana in 1959 or some Vietcong in 1968. Go, onward, go viva la revolution

Inspiring that we have somehow unlocked a new level of Incompetent/Brutal Shithead Cop and that the federal government is going to be spending all the public money previously designated for cancer research on making sure they all get suitably big trucks and absolute immunity for all future fuck-ups.

Anne of Green Goebbels

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

Unbeatable entertainment.

The hard truth is that there are some products you just can't make in America. These must be imported from elsewhere. Like chocolates, for example. American workers will always become overwhelmed by the speed of the conveyor belt. They'll end up shoving the sweets into their mouths and blouses

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Felix sat through the band’s entire new album, and a few of the radio hits, impatient for them to play the old school stuff. Then he heard the familiar bass line start, feeling the rumble deep down in his belly. Finally, it was time to get into the mosh pit and fuck some shit up.

MAGA is composed of ~10 separate factions that convinced themselves they are all aligned as one. They are not, and the tariffs are helping to break the factions apart. Notice this and amp up differences and grievances. Break them apart.

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

Canada is potentially about to elect a Prime Minister with a PhD in economics from Oxford, Mexico elected someone with a degree in physics and a PhD in energy engineering… Meanwhile, America elected a barely sentient orange turnip. Any Questions?!

Never forget that "Corporate America" is made up of the stupidest damn people on the planet, which is why they regularly crash the economy every time any small group of them finds a new fork to stick in a new outlet.

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

That Kristi Noem video with the detainees is so upsetting and the fact any sizable fraction, let alone a majority, of our society would endorse it is evidence of a deep rot in our entire culture. Like until you answer what fuels the appetite for that kind of thing it will only get worse

Turns out DEI was supposed to protect us from mediocre, power-hungry White Men and White Women.

The solution The evil fucks that voted for this kind of government cruelty should be shunned Those are the people we need to target with our wrath. We need to start from the ground up. You support this Nazi then stay out of our schools our businesses our life’s. Do not buy, sell to or hire them.

Thoughts on the “economic blackout”: It’s getting national news coverage. Don’t shit on this being the gateway to becoming more conscientious about one’s consumption and where their money goes. Use it as an opportunity to educate, not sneer. The hell are you doing that’s any more effective?